Artist Narrative

Saint Basil the Blessed was born a serf in the middle of the fifteenth century. As a young man he became an apprentice to a cobbler, but by the time he was 16 he had embraced the life of a fool for Christ. He went around naked in the streets of Moscow, weighed down with heavy chains. He died when he was 88 years old, having spent over seventy years as a holy fool.